VGB PowerTech Journal - Annual Overview 2015

The technical journal VGB PowerTech is a competent and internationally accepted publication for power plant engineering. It appears with 11 bilingual issues (German/English) annually. VGB PowerTech informs with technical/scientific papers and up-to-date news on all important questions of electricity and heat generation.

December issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 12/2015

Focal Points:
  • VGB Congress Power Plants 2015
  • Gas turbines
  • The FlameSheet combustor system
  • Quick start ability of a combined cycle power plant
  • Industrialisation of 3D-printing
  • Emission limits of mercury for coal-fired power plants

November issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 11/2015

Focal Points:
  • Environmental technologies
  • Security of supply of energy commodities
  • Overview of the Turkish energy market and the emission control technologies
  • Design of combustion technology for low-cost NOx reduction
  • Modernisation of flue gas desulphurisation at the Belchatów power plant

October issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 10/2015

Focal Points:
  • Generation in competition
  • Thermal waste recycling
  • How to design future energy systems
  • Fouling in energy from waste plants
  • Risk and insurance management for waste to energy plants
  • Extinguishing systems for the waste industry

September issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 9/2015

Focal Points:
  • VGB Congress Power Plants 2015
  • Renewables and Distributed generation
  • Hydro power capacity in Austria and Germany
  • Design of the Strasbourg fishway
  • Capabilities of Li-ion energy storage
  • The Moorburg power plant project

August issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 8/2015

Focal Points:
  • Materials HWT II
  • Civil engineering
  • Design, build and operation of the HWT II test rig
  • Impacts of flexible grid requirements on generators
  • CHP expansion in NRW
  • Lifetime diagnosis of natural draft cooling towers

July issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 7/2015

Focal Points:
  • Maintenance and service, retrofit
  • Maintenance for wind power plants
  • Utilisation of biomass for power and heat generation
  • Increase process safety by data and information management
  • EnNA – Sustainable wooden biomass

June issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 6/2015

Focal Points:
  • GKM unit 9 – Construction of a 911 MW coal power plant in an urban area
  • Increasing flexibility for a large-scale CHP plant
  • Flue gas cleaning and wastewater treatment
  • Rescue chain offshore wind
  • VGB-Standard VGB-S-513-00: Internal Cleaning
May issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 5/2015

Focal Points:
  • New build (GKM 9)
  • Occupational safety and health protection, fire protection
  • Rescue chain offshore Wind
April issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 4/2015

Focal Points:
  • New hydro in Europe and worldwide
  • Increasing flexibility of power plants
  • Successful first use of electronic documentation
March issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 3/2015

Focal Points:
  • Chemistry in Power Plants
  • CCS pilot project Le Havre
  • Fuel cell power plants
  • Cooling water treatment programmes
  • Firing design for hard cool fired steam generator RDK 8
January/February issue of the technical journal VGB PowerTech

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 1-2/2015

Focal Points:
  • VGB Congress 2014: Technical Leadership to Overcome Economic Challenges (focus on technical papers)
  • The 2030 framework for climate and energy policies
  • Maintenance without money - Challenge for changes
  • Flexibility options in the electrical power system